RE: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 items

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Taral wrote:
> >     root 18942 22213  0 13:22:03 ?        0:00 /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
> >     root 18946 22213  0 13:22:03 ?        0:00 /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
> >     root 18948     1  0 13:22:04 ?        0:00 /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
> >     root 22213     1  0   Oct 26 ?        1:40 /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
> 
> Er... if you have this, you have a problem. This means there are TWO
> sendmail daemons running... There should only be ONE with a ppid of 1. It
> looks like 18948 is blah.

No, it looks like there are 4 sendmail daemons running.

The issue is to determine what each of them are doing.

daemon != listener

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